Donohue's two wins to finish off the season made things close at the end but it was not enough to win the championship.It ended up going to Mustang even though Mercury was ahead going into the last race and had both Gurney and Jonesdriving for them. The other thing to note was this was the first race for Penske's team on Goodyear tires. Roger was a Firestoneracing tire distributor and this would not have been done without pressure from Mark Donohue. Roger ended up selling hisFirestone franchise and becoming a Goodyear racing tire distributor beginning in time for the '68 racing season.

good post: that article "talk about sand bagging-Ask Mark" Jerry Titus makes the remark at the end of the article regarding a super special light model and says "Like, how many Z-28's have you seen on the street, for example?" and in the years that followed Chevrolet capitalized on the racing prowess of the Z-28/Penske racing and marketed towards that crowd. But thank goodness for Mark Donahue and the Penske team or who knows if the moniker would even still be around today let alone the Camaro model itself.

I think with the Mustang still going there is good reason for Chevrolet to keep the Camaro in the lineup. Yes, there was an 8 year gap with no Camaro but it helped to refocus the car. Penske and Donohue did add prestige to the Camaro nameplate, no doubt about it. They were my heroes when I became a Camaro owner and even before that.